Facade [Paperback]

Patricia A. Rasey (Author)

Product Details

• Paperback
• Publisher: Romance Foretold Inc (July 2001)
• Language: English
• ISBN-10: 1586979337
• ISBN-13: 978-1586979331
• Product Dimensions: 8.7 x 5.2 x 0.8 inches
• Shipping Weight: 11 ounces
• Average Customer Review: 4.6 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (14 customer reviews)
• Amazon Best Sellers Rank: #10,309,775 in Books (See Top 100 in Books)

More About the Author

A daydreamer at heart, suspense author, Patricia A. Rasey, resides in her native town in Northwest Ohio with her husband, Mark and her lovable Cavalier King Charles Spaniel Todd. She has two adult sons she is extremely proud of and are actively making their own paths in life. At the age of twenty-nine, her boys both tucked away in school all day, she decided to put her creative writing studies to use. A graduate of Long Ridge Writer's School, Patricia has seen publication of some her short stories in magazines as well as several of her novels.

Ms. Rasey is a three-time recipient of the Word Weaving Award for Literary Excellence and a three-time winner of the prestigious RIO Award Of Excellence. She is also a three-time EPPIE finalist and was a 2001 nominee for Romantic Times Magazine's Best Electronic Book. Additionally, Twilight Obsessions and Twilight Visions, two anthologies she was a part of, was nominated for the PEARL, the Paranormal Excellence Award in Romantic Literature, in the Best Anthology category. Her short story, In The Mind of Darkness won the P&E 2002 Horror short story category.

When not behind her computer, you can find Patricia working, reading, watching movies or MMA. She is currently a third degree Black Belt in American Freestyle Karate.

Ms. Rasey's work includes the novels...

-- Deadly Obsession (currently not available).
-- Kiss of Deceit.
-- Facade.
-- The Hour Before Dawn, sequel to the best-selling Deadly Obsession (currently not available).
-- Eyes Of Betrayal, sequel to the best-selling Kiss Of Deceit.
-- Love You to Pieces (not yet published).
-- Lawfully Yours, her first historical romance.
-- Eternally Yours, sequel to Lawfully yours.
-- Dark Savior.


...As well as the novellas and award winning short story...

-- Fear the Dark
-- Sanitarium
-- In the Mind of Darkness

You can write to Patricia at:
Patricia A. Rasey
P.O. Box 385
Napoleon, OH. 43545

Customer Reviews

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2 of 2 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars FACADE rocks!!, February 27, 2002

By A Customer

This review is from: Facade (Paperback)

FACADE is another shining example of Patricia Rasey's talent to blend dark, chilling suspense with smoldering, sexy romance. Add to that a "whodunnit" that had me suspecting everyone but the real killer, and you have a real winner of a read! As if the tightly-plotted and expertly-executed mystery weren't enough, Ms. Rasey throws in a forbidden love romance between a tough crime scene investigator (KC) and the sherrif's sultry, all-grown-up daughter (Sharalee) that practically burns up the page.

As I said on my review of THE HOUR BEFORE DAWN, I'll say it again here. When is some smart publisher going to snatch up this author and print her in mass market paperback?! She'll give all the big names a run for their money. Write on, Ms. Rasey -- you ROCK!!

1 of 1 people found the following review helpful:

4.0 out of 5 stars Timeless Tales review, February 4, 2003

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"tteditor" (Washington DC) - See all my reviews

This review is from: Facade (Paperback)

By TT reviewer Jameela
Deputy Detective KC Tanner guards his private life much the same as his Doberman, Zappa, guards his home. He is content to live a life of solitude, hiding behind the wall he has carefully constructed around himself. He has known Shar since she was 9 and he was 24. She is his best friends little girl. He has always thought of her as a little sister. So why, now that she has come home from college looking VERY grown up, is he having very un-brother-like thoughts about her?

Sharalee MacArthur was raised by her father, Mike MacArthur Sheriff of McCreary County, after the tragic death of her mother. She has always known that KC was the man she would someday marry. Since her graduation from college, Shar has been serving McCreary County as a victim's advocate. She is hoping that now she has come home from college that KC will see she is no longer a little girl. That is, until reality shatters his isolation and dashes her hopes. A madman running loose in their homey little community has KC and Shar fleeing for their lives.

This is an excellent book. Rasey has included everything you look for in a true romantic suspense: romance, sexual tension, lies, mystery, murder and revenge. This book snagged my attention in the first gruesome chapter, and did not let go until the surprising conclusion. An unknown madman is killing people in very gruesome and gory ways. Rasey leads you to believe you know who is behind the murders, but with the revelation of each lie and subsequent mystery, you are sent down a different road leading to another possible suspect. Not only does KC need to solve this case, he also has to come to terms with his feelings for Shar. Because of the murders, they are thrown together on a professional as well as a personal level. The road Shar and KC travel to reach true happiness is a very rocky one; will their growing relationship survive to the end of this journey? Rasey has you guessing, "Who done it?" right up to the end and the conclusion is a surprise you will never expect. This is the first book of Patricia Rasey's that I have read and after reading this one I am eager to read her other books. I highly recommend this book to all romantic suspense readers and to anyone who likes a good murder mystery.

1 of 1 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars FACADE, January 5, 2003

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Susan Hartigan (Riverside, California United States) - See all my reviews
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This review is from: Facade (Paperback)

Façade: The front part of anything: often used figuratively, with implications of an imposing appearance concealing something inferior.

Be afraid, be very afraid! There is a killer on the loose and you had better hope that you have nothing in your past that may lead him your way. No matter what appearance you may present, he knows what is beneath that FACADE.

To wander down the streets of Pine Knot, Kentucky you would think it was another quaint little southern town. The people seem to live their lives much the same as any other small town. But beneath the FAÇADE, lives another world. A world of, secrets, lies, deception, and horror.

Deputy Detective KC Tanner is perfectly happy living his life as a confirmed bachelor. He is content living alone in his house with his Doberman, Zappa, and doing his job as a detective with the Sheriffs Department of McCreary County.

All of this, however, is being threatened by the sheriff's daughter, Sharalee MacArthur, who is determined to live out her childhood fantasy of her love for him. KC is doing everything he can possibly do to thwart Shar's advances, but it is getting more and more difficult as she is no longer the little girl he remembers. She came home from college a beautiful young woman. A young woman who will not leave him alone, although the age difference is too great in KC's mind. Not to mention that KC's best, and only friend, is Shar's father, Sheriff Mike MacArthur, known to all as Mac.

People are being murdered in the most horrendous ways. Ways that could possibly only mean revenge. But revenge for what? There has to be a common denominator that links these people together, and KC is determined to find out what that common denominator is.

At the same time KC has to convince Shar that he is not the man for her. He even takes to talking to the local minister of the church, Pastor Thomas Jackson about Shar, his physical attraction to her, and his past life, including the secret that he has kept. But it seems that no matter what KC does, Shar will just not give up. Finally he manages to drive her into the arms of another man, Sidney Kurtz. Very much to KC's surprise, seeing them together bothers him a lot.

However, KC doesn't have time to reflect on his unhappiness with Shar and Sidney being together, he has to solve the murders that are happening, and he has to do it soon before another one happens.

What is behind these murders? The common link seems to be Mac's dead wife, Alison Mac Arthur, Shar's mother. But who and what is the reason for this? Alison has been dead for almost twenty years. What is the secret that seems to be eluding KC? And who is behind all of this? He has to find out soon.

Ms. Rasey certainly has come up with a winner in FAÇADE. I could not put this book down. It had me completely absorbed until the last shocking pages. I had to find out what was going to happen in both the personal lives of the characters, as well as who was going to be killed next, and why. FAÇADE is completely addictive from the first page.

Ms. Rasey has created multi-faceted characters, and at the same time she has created a
super fast moving plot. She has captured the world of lies, deceit, intrigue, and revenge. FAÇADE is definitely a must read for its chilling account of the murders, the investigation, and the secrets that caused them. At the same time bringing into this horrific, and terrifying world love, friendship, and trust. It is amazing how she has managed to have two opposite plots run concurrently and mixed together to bring about a story that completely hypnotizes the reader.

FAÇADE is not only a spine-tingling murder mystery that will leave feeling cold to the bones, it is also a love story that will leave you completely breathless. FACADE is a wonderful example of Ms. Rasey's talent to blend spine tingling terror and suspense, with warm and sexy romance and love.

FACADE will keep you guessing. Even if you are clever enough to figure out who did it, which I don't think you will, you still won't believe the dynamite ending. It will leave you completely emotionally drained.

FAÇADE most definitely proves the old adage: What goes around comes around. And in this case when it comes around, it is deadly.

I definitely recommend that you get a copy of FAÇADE, take it home and lock the doors, turn up the lights, and settle in for a full night of terrific suspense, murder, and love. All mixed up in a great story that will leave you completely satisfied that you have visited the world of FAÇADE. You cannot miss with this wonderful book.